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2015-06-25 @ 7:00 PM

Desert Victory

(Roy Boulting, 1943) · A documentary on the Allied campaign in North Africa during World War II, Desert Victory depicts the struggle between German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel (known as the Desert Fox) and English Field Marshal Bernard ‘Monty’ Montgomery. Produced by the British Ministry of Information, the film focuses particularly on the British victory at El Alamein, featuring a mix of re-enactments and original footage, some from captured German newsreels.

runtime: 62 min format: 16mm

 

2015-07-02 @ 7:00 PM

The Jackie Robinson Story

(Alfred E. Green, 1950) · In this film, baseball legend Robinson, the first African-American player to reach the majors, adds movie stardom to his many other accomplishments. He plays himself in this biopic, depicting his battle against bigotry in the early years of his career and his key role in the Dodgers' pennant-winning team of the era. He's not the only sporting pioneer on hand: look for Kenny Washington, one of the first black football players in the pros, in a small role! From the Collection of the Library of Congress

runtime: 76 min format: 16mm

2015-07-09 @ 7:00 PM

Price of Honor

(Neena Nejad and Xoel Pamos, 2014) · In The Price of Honor, directors Neena Nejad and Xoel Pamos explore the case of Amina and Sarah Said, two sisters believed to be murdered by their father, Yaser, as an honor killing. The directors hope the film will renew interest in the case and educate the public about honor killings. After the screening, Pamos will be present for a panel discussion with the audience. The event is free to the public and hosted by UNICEF and the UNA Chicago Chapter.

runtime: 118min format: DVD

 

2015-07-16 @ 7:00 PM

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

(Craig McCall, 2010) · Cameraman explores the work of celebrated British cinematographer Jack Cardiff, whose career took off after a series of collaborations with Powell & Pressburger. The documentary took 17 years to create, but it was only completed and released a year after Cardiff’s death. The film includes interviews with Cardiff himself, who discusses his decades-long career and what it was like working with Hollywood icons such as Audrey Hepburn and Alfred Hitchcock.

runtime: 86 min format: 35mm

 

2015-07-23 @ 7:00 PM

Any Gun Can Play

(Enzo G. Castellari, 1967) · Before poliziotteschi films came spaghetti westerns. This one, biting from Sergio Leone with a premise parodying The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, features a bounty hunter, a banker, and a bandido. The three hunt for a hidden treasure in a search filled with constant double crosses and shootouts. Wonderfully ironic and tongue-in-cheek, the film is one of the first comedy spaghetties. Castellari's exquisite visual style endures in FPS video games.

runtime: 105 min format: 35mm

 

2015-07-30 @ 7:00 PM

Eyes of Fire

(Avery Crounse, 1983) · This regional horror film set in colonial America is mesmerizing in its unique blend of the natural and the mystical. When a preacher is booted from his settlement for adultery, he and his followers, including a strange girl with mysterious powers, take refuge from the Shawnee in a valley haunted by spirits. As authentic as it is atmospheric, this is a richly imagined journey into the unknown, and truly eerie as a result.

runtime: 90 min format: 35mm

 

2015-08-06 @ 7:00 PM

The Candy Snatchers

(Guerdon Trueblood, 1973) · The Candy Snatchers delivers all the sleaze one would expect from an exploitation film, as well as a few things much rarer in the genre: punchy direction, spirited performances, and unpredictability at every turn. When a depraved trio kidnaps a teen diamond heiress, things spiral ever more out of control. An autistic boy stands as the only witness, but will the selfish adult world listen? Misanthropy doesn’t come any purer than this.

runtime: 94 min format: 35mm

 

2015-08-13 @ 7:00 PM

Fearless Fighters

(Mou Man-hung, 1971) · As high-flying and outlandish as the best chopsocky, Fearless Fighters is an utter delight. Evil To Pa and his Eagle Claw clan kill the Lightning Whip during a gold robbery, but when his plot to frame the virtuous Lei Pong fails, he recruits the Soul Pickers, the Dragon Raiser brothers, and the notorious One Man Army to kill him. While it’s hardly the pinnacle of kung fu, its hilarious dubbing and flagrant defiance of physics can’t be beat.

runtime: 83 min format: 35mm

 

2015-08-20 @ 7:00 PM

I'm From Arkansas

(Lew Landers, 1944) · The rural town of Pitchfork, Arkansas becomes a national sensation when a sow named Esmerelda gives birth to 18 piglets, causing people to stream in from across the country including travelling circus troupes, big business, and even the State Department of Agriculture to exploit the latest sensation. This romance/comedy includes plenty of music and laughs, but also serves as a document to a time and place distant from and strangely close to our own. runtime: 83 min runtime: 70 min format: 16mm

 

2015-08-27 @ 7:00 PM

Alexander Nevsky

(Sergei Eisenstein, 1938) · A recipient of the Stalin Prize, Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein’s first film with sound, is a historical drama about the battle waged between the people of Novgorod and the Teutonic Knights. Nikolai Cherkasov plays the eponymous prince in an intensely allegorical film exploring the fractious relationship between the Soviet Union and Germany in the 1930’s through the lens of a folk hero. Its climactic battle scene takes a half hour altogether.

runtime: 112 min format: 16mm

 

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